Peking Studies
Shanghai: Kelly & Walsh, 1934. Friedrich Schiff. First Edition. Hardcover. Folio. Illustrated with photographs by the author and sketches by F H Schiff. Map. Cream cloth with photographic illustration inset on front board with red cloth title ribbon lettered in black. Some soiling and spotting to boards and spine, Very Good+. Internally clean and bright. Very Good+. Item #9394 At is core, Peking Studies presents an early adoption of street photography - but what streets: Exotica from another era.
Stunning images "taken by the Rolleiflex camera" of Catleen, who was Ellen Thorbecke, the wife of the former Dutch ambassador to China, and is here using her maiden name. Friedrich Schiff (1908-1968) was Austrian and came to China in 1930, where he worked as a newspaper caricaturist.
Price: $650.00